Police not incompetent, says spokesman

The Lagos State Police Command yesterday reassured residents of its resolve to detect and prevent crime.

Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Kenneth Nwosu, a Deputy Superintendent (DSP) said, the command had been proactive in crime investigations.

Lagosians, he said, should disregard any report describing the police as incompetent.

“For any crime that is committed, we are to do investigation, nobody tells us how or when to do this. Our duty as police officers mandates us to do so and as a command that is very proactive to issues like this, we do that,” Nwosu said.

He noted that it was the police responsibility to prevent or detect crime, adding: “We are to do investigations on every crime committed either detected by the police or reported by the public.

“It is one of our paramount duties according to Section 4 of the Police Act. We try to prevent crime, if we cannot prevent it, we detect and it is during investigation that we detect.” he said.